Dan Thorn

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  • #238014
    Dan Thorn
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    Mixed feelings over that. The opening laps whilst it was dry were fun (although I took a while to stop running onto the grass in braking zones..had a few spins early on like that, sorry for any collateral damage) but once the rain came down I got confused. The dry tyres wouldn’t keep any heat, but Mag said we wouldn’t need wets so I carried on. As the rain got heavier though the dry tyres became harder to drive, so I tried the inters. They were grippier, but much slower. The rain got heavier so I tried full wets, which were hopeless. Went back to the slicks which were the fastest but now quite tricky to drive because the front tyres stayed stone cold and it just understeered everywhere. Was thoroughly fed up so I cranked up the TC, switched on the ASM and n00bed it to the end. I think if you’re going to have wet races, have proper grip levels. The field properly spread out as it rained and slightly spoiled it for me, would have preferred if it was completely dry.

    The second half of the race was pretty good though. Had some great battles with Bob and Spud and I was trying to beat them with strategy but they were just plain faster and both were ahead of me on the final lap. Then Spud crashed at Indianapolis and Bob span at the final chicane and I snuck through to take a cheeky 4th. Shame Mag had to leave cos he’d have been right in there too. Thanks guys for waiting for a couple of little taps that were had, very fair and good racing with you guys :)

    Hate to end on a downer but I’m disappointed with the conduct of a certain racer. Not naming names but I was knocked off a couple of times by them (one costing me 20 or 30 seconds and depriving me of a fight with any other cars for most of the race) caused by them gong for overly ambitious and aggressive moves into corners where you simply cant overtake. I wasn’t waited for, let back through or anything. I also witnessed several examples of corner cutting and I’m disappointed at this typical public lobby attitude.

    Congrats to Chops for dominating and to our podium finishers. Many thanks to Mag for organising a fun event, and I’m happy to have beaten the combination of real racing driver/fake Launcestonian ;)

    #237996
    Dan Thorn
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    I gifted it to him outright. And Alex, you’re not borrowing it, it’s yours to keep!

    Really looking forward to this!

    #237973
    Dan Thorn
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    Room for one more? :D

    In – DanThorn – Peugeot 905 Race Car ’92

    By the way, when it comes to shared cars they can’t be used online. People can borrow them for use in single player GT mode but won’t be able to use them in an online lobby, unfortunately.

    #207111
    Dan Thorn
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    Woah! Car Wars is on YouTube! I must have watched that video to death when I was a kid.

    “Apparently, cochon is the French word for pig!”

    “And the award for best Oscar goes to Crasher Laurrari”

    I’m going to have a lot of fun re watching that later, thanks Keith!

    #203776
    Dan Thorn
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    So, turns out I can race! That is, if there’s room, and if you’ll still have me…

    …and if this bloody update installs in time, which, as it’s only done 1% in 3 minutes, isn’t looking promising :(

    If so, I’ll be whipping out the old Bentley Speed 8 again.

    #203763
    Dan Thorn
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    Shame I can’t enter this year. Was great fun being egged on by my F1F audience!

    Good luck everyone!

    #201656
    Dan Thorn
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    Kobayashi on Button, and his pass on Rosberg. Great, last minute late braking stuff, the kind of thing we saw from him loads in 2010 but not so much of in 2011.

    Hamilton’s pass on the Toro Rossos was very clever but the massive tyre advantage stops it from being the best of the race. Vettel made some nice passes to.

    And not really a proper overtake, but Maldonado and Alonso at the start was good, hard, fair racing. Pastor left just enough room and tried to regain the lead on the outside, but backed off when he knew he was beat so as not to lose more places. Top stuff.

    #199261
    Dan Thorn
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    Nerve: touched

    #198578
    Dan Thorn
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    …No.

    If this is the only way we can keep Spa on the calendar for the time being I’m all for it. I’m not going to sign a petition asking the organisers to price themselves out of a Grand Prix altogether.

    #172385
    Dan Thorn
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    Should be free!

    #194885
    Dan Thorn
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    Worth remembering that in many races in the second half of the season Alonso and the team played the percentage game with the lead they’d built up in the first half of the season. We saw once the championship had been won that the Alonso-Renault combination was every bit as fast as the Raikkonen-McLaren combination, so I wouldn’t say Alonso was ‘gifted it’ at all. You cover situations like that in the disclaimer, so how you then draw the ‘definite’ conclusion I don’t know.

    Also in the Japanese Grand Prix, Alonso was told to give a place back to Klien as it was thought he’d passed him illegally. He did so, but was then told he didn’t have to give it back. This cost him a lot of time (he was already several seconds down the road when he ‘had’ to give the place back) and without it he might have even won…

    #194760
    Dan Thorn
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    They’re good looking cars and the extra manufacturer makes the world of difference, but personally I’d have more interest if there were some non-German manufacturers as well. I’ve always seen it as a bit of a one dimensional series…

    #192846
    Dan Thorn
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    I think Gilles’ Ferrari 126CK is probably the worst car that someone has taken to a genuine win – ie a victory that was down mainly to the skill of a driver and not other factors such as the weather/misfortune of others. Ok the Monaco win was a little lucky as Jones had a bit of a problem, but the fact Gilles was there in second anyway is remarkable.

    #192817
    Dan Thorn
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    I think Fisi at Brazil in 2003. That car was just plain naff the rest of the races and it was quite a fortunate win.

    Panis’ win at Monaco 96 was one of those rare occasions when the driver is on it, the conditions suit him, the car works well and he has some good luck, so I think on that day the car wasn’t bad.

    #192554
    Dan Thorn
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    I think the Italian media is mainly focused on Ferrari, yes. Not having an Italian driver is a shame, but there hasn’t been an Italian World Champion since 1953. If they were truly worried about the lack of Italian talent, you’d think they’d have made more of that fact and tried to rectify it a long time ago.

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